Inglesagil Amazon Adventure

A 6 month language program located in Cali, Colombia, South America that uses recreational and vacational stay for adults and teaches New Americana values and speech for the new age of communication and information.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Energy crisis does not threaten survival here. "Powerful by Nature"

Gore's Hands are Full

"The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," so was the old Soviet Republicbut not any more Gore said.In a speech at Washington's Constitution Hall, Gore touched on an array of the nation's current woes, saying the economic, environmental and national security crises are all related."I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously," Gore said.To begin to fix all the problems, Gore said, "the answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Watch more on Gore's answer to energy crisis »Gore called on the country to produce all of its electricity from renewable and carbon-free sources in 10 years, a goal he compared to President Kennedy's challenge for the country to put a man on the moon in the 1960s.Gore chastised those who have proposed opening new areas for oil drilling as a solution to U.S. energy problems."It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil 10 years from now," Gore said. Watch panelists discuss Gore's speech »New demand from places like China means oil supplies won't be able to meet increasing demand, Gore said."The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 a gallon gasoline," the former vice president and Nobel laureate said. Read Gore's full speechAfter losing the presidential election to then-Texas Gov. George Bush in 2000, Gore returned to the nation's political main stage with "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary film detailing global warming's effects on the planet, in 2006. The widely acclaimed film went on to win an Academy Award for best documentary in 2007.In the movie, Gore explains how the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have grown exponentially in the last few decades and how that has led to changes in the Earth's climate, such as shrinking polar ice caps and an increase in the number of hurricanes and other violent storms.